Excerpts from the Press Briefing by Scott McClellan, September 2, 2003 (Full Transcript)

QUESTION: Scott, on Afghanistan. We have multinational
forces there, but still Taliban are bad and Afghanistan was the first
country where the terrorism started -- terrorism, and dragging out
Taliban and al Qaeda supporters and all that. Now, Karzai government in
Afghanistan is asking this administration to go back and help the --
that have been left.

MR. McCLELLAN: I'm sorry. I didn't follow your question in
there.

QUESTION: The Talibans are back now in Afghanistan
and are fighting and we have multinational forces, that's true. But how
come the Talibans are still there?

MR. McCLELLAN: We continue to make progress in Afghanistan.
There, again, you have enemies of peace and enemies of freedom, and
enemies of the people of Afghanistan. That's why we're continuing our
efforts to bring those former -- those Taliban members to justice, as
well, and bring any terrorists there in that country to justice, too.
We're making some important progress.